music just starts playing automatically on my iPhone

I found it. You pick a song, click on the mini bar that shows the song that is playing, click the icon on the bottom right that has 3 vertical dots with lines to the right. That will bring up a list of what songs are going to play. To the right of “Playing next”, you will see 3 icons: shuffle (crossing arrows), repeat (arrows circling), and the infinity sign.

I had this problem even though I'm not subscribed to Apple Music. My issue was that it automatically played songs that I had bought from iTunes years ago. I fixed this by going to Settings -> Music App -> Library (Show all purchases) OFF.

Go to AirPlay and Handoff settings. At the top of that settings page tap the “automatically AirPlay” setting and toggle to “Off”

I read through this last night and tried to click on the infinity button, and alas, it wasn’t there, just like everyone was noting.

Then I went back in and realized that if I was in the Radio mode, the infinity button wasn’t there. HOWEVER, as long as I picked a song from my library, and then followed the instructions to get to the Playing Next section…there it was. Clicked it, so far 24 hours later, so good.

Do you all use the Music Widget to access/view your music? I had the same issue with it auto playing a radio station, even though I was listening to a song on my play list, once accessing my music using the widget. I follow someone’s advice to delete the music app all together and reload it back again. This time around I did not add the widget, just used the normal music app. Since doing so my issues have gone away. To test it I added the widget back in and the issue began occurring again where it would auto play music. Not sure if this is the same for others, but this was my findings and fix.

At last a solution that works - no infinity symbol but this does allow you to disable automatic air play when you connect to your car - 8 hours of searching and bingo - thanks

the link above explains the action:

go to settings/airplay & handoff/automatic airplay and set to ask and bingo - I did reboot the phone and the car and it worked perfectly

go to settings > general > AirPlay & Handoff

Right on top there is “Automatic AirPlay”

disable it and test it out…

So for me none of those other settings in my phone worked. I have iPhone 13. That infinity symbol thing in Apple Music was NOT THE ANSWER for all the folk saying they didn’t have it. What the problem was for me was a setting in my stereo system. I clicked the home button in car then went to the main settings in my car. In my car it was called “usb auto launch.” I moved the toggle to off and now when I plug my phone in it doesn’t start blasting music. Hope this is helpful.

At last a solution that works - no infinity symbol but this does allow you to disable automatic air play when you connect to your car - 8 hours of searching and bingo - thanks

the link above explains the action:

go to settings/airplay & handoff/automatic airplay and set to ask and bingo - I did reboot the phone and the car and it worked perfectly

Deleting Apple Music solved the problem for me.

This is the exact answer. Double checked it.

Settings -> General -> Automatic AirPlay - > Off

Floofaroo88 wrote:

So for me none of those other settings in my phone worked. I have iPhone 13. That infinity symbol thing in Apple Music was NOT THE ANSWER for all the folk saying they didn’t have it. What the problem was for me was a setting in my stereo system. I clicked the home button in car then went to the main settings in my car. In my car it was called “usb auto launch.” I moved the toggle to off and now when I plug my phone in it doesn’t start blasting music. Hope this is helpful.

Thanks for providing your solution. Some users refuse to understand that the car stereo unit needs to have this setting to stop the audio from playing automatically. Not all vehicles have it, but is more common in newer vehicles. While you found the setting for a USB connection, the same is true for Bluetooth as well. Without this setting, the play command is sent to the iPhone from the radio when it is connected, otherwise you would never hear any music when you change the audio source on the car radio to the iPhone.

Go into Settings > Airplay & Handoff and turn off automatic Airplay. They Apple will not start playing as soon as connected to another Bluetooth device. Keep in mind though whenever you do want it to start on a Bluetooth device, you will need to start it manually.

go to settings > general > AirPlay & Handoff

Right on top there is “Automatic AirPlay”

disable it and test it out…

Today, there is no infinity symbol. Since most recent upgrade Apple Music starts up every time. In the car this is the worst, because I do not want music while I am driving. I have downloaded John Cale’s 4’33” which is 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence. It gives me time to close the app with no music. I have it on auto repeat, so it is the only song that comes up. Next step will be to delete Apple Music.